McCain's Lack of Defense of Palin's Earmarks

It'samusing, really, to see McCain offer non sequitors and tu quoque responses to legitimate questions about his campaign. For a recent example of such behavior, one only needs to read a recent AP interview.

He was asked about nearly $200 million in congressional pet projects Palin requested for 2009 for her state, despite her boasts that she opposes such projects and his claim that she didn't ask for any. McCain responded by criticizing Obama for seeking more than $900 million in these earmarks, by one count.

"That's nearly a million every day, every working day he's been in Congress," McCain said. "And when you look at some of the planetariums and other foolishness that he asked for, he shouldn't be saying anything about Governor Palin."

I don't recall hearing Obama or anyone on Obama's camp attempting to champion him as some sort of pork reformer. But we do hear ad nauseum about Palin the Pork Reformer. The very Palin who demanded money for a bridge to no where, among other named "pork" projects.

It seems like McCain realized how to use the internet afterall. He is simply regurgitating the same bullshit the kool-aid guzzlers do in the conservative blogosphere.